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Sir Edward Coke Quotes


A seventeenth-century English jurist and Member of Parliament whose writings on the common law were the definitive legal texts for nearly 150 years.
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was a seventeenth-century English jurist and Member of Parliament whose writings on the common law were the definitive legal texts for nearly 150 years. Born into a family of minor Norfolk gentry, Coke travelled to London as a young man to make his living as a barrister. There he rapidly gained prominence as one of the leading attorneys of his time, eventually being appointed Solicitor General and then Attorney General by Queen Elizabeth. As Attorney General, Coke famously prosecuted Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators for treason. In 1606, Coke was made Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, later being elevated, in 1613, to Lord Chief Justice of England.

Here are some famous quotes by Sir Edward Coke.

For a man's home is his castle.

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Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

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Reason is the life of the law; nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.

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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.